Did a nice chunk of Christmas shopping last night. Lady and I had our early Christmas together last night. We went out to La Fourno [South/6th] to cash in the free entrees we got for my referral of her's to join 12th St Gym. Deeee-licious. A review will come sooner than later for La Fourno. We exchanged gifts too. I got her a photo album and an 8" x 10" frame. She's been wanting an album to file her piles and piles of photos. Now, she can have 150 of them organized. For the 8" x 10", she picked this shot, which is also one of my favorite shots. She got me what felt like a tiny pillow. It was rectangular and soft. I opened it up and to my delight, it was a 365-day calendar of America: The Book, the book The Daily Show put out about a year and a half ago. Awesome. I was actually thinking of getting her a similar gift of Bush-isms. That would've been reminiscent of the Christmas where we got each other THE SAME EXACT GIFT of Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart. Now that was funny. We were both cracking up for a good long while.
I've decided to give photos as presents to most of the fam. For my Mom & Dad, I printed an 8" x 10" of them at my sister's wedding and a nice Umbra box frame with a floating triple mat I picked up at Matthew Izzo [Pine/9th]. For my sister and brother in law, I picked up Fahrenheit 9/11 on DVD from TLA Video [Spruce/16th]. I also prepared a wedding photo album for them with eight 8" x 10" shots and about twenty 4" x 6" shots. Still finalizing the layout for that one. And I gotta spray mount them to the pages tonight.
For my nephew, I got him a Gameboy Advance game. Apparently, he's all into Star Wars and his Gameboy. They're also going on a trip to Disney World on Christmas Day so I figured a game would kill three birds with one stone. I got him the Revenge of the Sith game which will hopefully occupy him on the planeride and any boring parts of the trip. I still don't know what to get my neice, arg. For my brother and sis in law, I printed out an 8" x 10" of their family from my sister's wedding, I'll be getting another frame from Matthew Izzo tonight after work [they're having a sale!].
For my cousin Jee Young, she sent out a wishlist of books. I'm headed over to Robin's to see what they have in stock from her list. I also got her a 5" x 7" of her and her younger twin brothers at my sister's wedding. For the twins, they get 5" x 7" framed photos of that same photo to bring back to their fan-cay Ivy League schools. I dunno what to get their parents though. My mom's asked me to get a mock turtleneck sweater for my grandma, but I have no idea what/where to get one of those. I don't pay attention to sweaters in stores, I don't wear them. Maybe I'll pick one up on my mom's recommendation back in NY.
And it just hit me that I'll have to hoof it from Penn Station over to Grand Central on Friday night when I get into NYC on the train. With all these presents, plus a bag of luggage, plus my laptop, plus my photo gear. Hrmph. Maybe I'll cab it. Maybe the transit strike will be over and I'll be able to take the 7/S.
i hope your family doesn't read your blog!
Posted by: katestryker | December 20, 2005 at 12:48 PM